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Afton/Star Valley

Lost Labs of Star Valley remain a mystery

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

When Lindsey Ross tied up Marley, a lab-border collie mix, under the shade of a tree with a bowl full of water at the Sheep Gulch boating takeout, she had no idea she would not see her beloved one-year old pup again.Marley, who looked like a young black lab but with a few spots of white on her paw and under her neck, was left next to Ross’ SUV, which she often crawled under to sleep while her human went kayaking....
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The town of Afton sits in the middle of Star Valley, between the Salt River Range in western Wyoming and the Webster Range of eastern Idaho. An ideal vacation destination, the valley has access to hiking and horseback riding trails, mountain lakes and streams for fishing, and hundreds of miles of forest roads and highways for sightseeing. Yellowstone and Teton National Parks as well as the Jackson Hole are an easy day trip from Afton. The surrounding Bridger and Caribou National Forests provide camping, hunting and sightseeing opportunities. Mormon settlers founded Afton along the Lander Cutoff of the Oregon Trail. You can drive to many points along the trail and walk through portions of it, where wagon ruts and tree carvings left by early pioneers are still evident. Today the trail is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Afton also is home to the world's largest elk horn arch; spanning 75 feet across the four lanes of US Highway 89, it consists of 3,011 elk antlers and weighs 15 tons.

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Lost Labs of Star Valley remain a mystery Wednesday, September 26, 2007 When Lindsey Ross tied up Marley, a lab-border collie mix, under the shade of a tree with a bowl full of water at the Sheep...

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